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Critical surface of the hexagonal polygon model

Mathematical Physics 2016-04-20 v2 Combinatorics math.MP Probability

Abstract

The hexagonal polygon model arises in a natural way via a transformation of the 1-2 model on the hexagonal lattice, and it is related to the high temperature expansion of the Ising model. There are three types of edge, and three corresponding parameters α,β,γ>0\alpha,\beta,\gamma>0. By studying the long-range order of a certain two-edge correlation function, it is shown that the parameter space (0,)3(0,\infty)^3 may be divided into subcritical and supercritical regions, separated by critical surfaces satisfying an explicitly known formula. This result complements earlier work on the Ising model and the 1-2 model. The proof uses the Pfaffian representation of Fisher, Kasteleyn, and Temperley for the counts of dimers on planar graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1508.07492,
  title  = {Critical surface of the hexagonal polygon model},
  author = {Geoffrey R. Grimmett and Zhongyang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07492},
  year   = {2016}
}

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v2: minor changes and corrections

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